

If you really hate antivirus, Windows Defender is the least intrusive program you can use-so you should probably leave it on. Many people will tell you that you can go without antivirus if you’re careful, and that just isn’t true. While it’s handy being able to enable and disable Windows Defender, please do make sure that you’re still running a good antivirus app.

RELATED: Do I Really Need Antivirus If I Browse Carefully and Use Common Sense? Make Sure You’re Still Using Antivirus (and Anti-Malware) Plus, Defender takes up very little disk space and there are better ways to free up disk space on Windows. Second, if you stop the service-or go through the process of uninstalling it-any Windows update is likely to restore Windows Defender and undo all that work anyway.
